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MARTINI for heavy quarks: initialization, parton evolution, and hadronization with event generation

Nuclear Theory 2013-05-30 v1 High Energy Physics - Phenomenology Nuclear Experiment

Abstract

We present additions to the MARTINI event generator for examining heavy quarks and quarkonia in heavy-ion collisions. All stages of a heavy-ion collision affect the observables associated with heavy quarks: the initial phase space of the heavy quarks are sampled with PYTHIA8.1, the heavy quarks are evolved using Langevin dynamics and a 3+1-dimensional hydrodynamical description of the heavy-ion collision, and are fragmented and hadronized using a modified version of the color evaporation model that takes into account non-trivial evolution in position space, as well as the possibility of recombinant quarkonium production in heavy-ion collisions. We use this to re-examine the production of quarkonium at RHIC, and anticipating vertex detection we predict yields of B_c mesons at RHIC and the LHC.

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@article{arxiv.1111.0647,
  title  = {MARTINI for heavy quarks: initialization, parton evolution, and hadronization with event generation},
  author = {Clint Young and Bjoern Schenke and Sangyong Jeon and Charles Gale},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1111.0647},
  year   = {2013}
}

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17 pages, 5 figures

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